The Winter Steelhead Season on the Wynoochee River has been a staple of our annual offerings for many years. The river produces some very large hatchery winter steelhead and gets the largest number of hatchery smolts out of all the individual river systems open for fishing. Over 170,000 hatchery steelhead and we always do our best to get as many of those to the boat as possible for all of you.
First time customers are always pleasantly surprised when they brave the cold and rain and catch their first Winter Steelhead. You can see how nice and big these hatchery fish are from Ken's 2013 fish below.
Unfortunately we've spent more time this year looking at the below graph than actually fishing! The average flow for the Wynoochee River this time of year is between 1500 and 2500 cfs at Black Creek. You can see from the image below we were well below our normal low right around 800-900cfs most of January and February until it shot up - overnight - to over 5000cfs on February 12th. We didn't even get 1 day in between for an optimal fishery.
You can track this data yourself from our website: Wynoochee River Page
On the left hand side there are links to both the actual current flows and the predicted flows shown below.
Right now from the above data it would appear that we should be back on the river fishing by Saturday! We are very excited to get out and George, who is booked for this Saturday and has been rescheduled 3 times so far this season, would appreciate it if the forecast remains the same!
We hope to see you out there this weekend and maybe Mother Nature will bless the remaining 6 weeks of our season with moderate weather!!
Thanks for the info. . I've been wondering why the reports have been so slow this year.
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